Palaeontology

The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades.

Geophysical exploration methods are very expensive and invasive methods for surveys.

This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology.

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This volume is a collection of papers presented to Professor Tom Barnard by former students, colleagues and friends to mark thirty-two years of teaching and research in micropalaeontology at University College London.

This book describes the microbiota of the intertrappean beds in the Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Unraveling the mystery of the catastrophic age of extinctionsTwo hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet.

This book comprehensively explores the early evolution of life and the Archean environment.

Fossil biomineralizarion in a geologic framework for advanced students and researchers in paleontology, Earth history, evolution, sedimentology, geochemistry, and materials science.

Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty-"e;Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!

More than three hundred million years ago-a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared-vertebrate animals first ventured onto land.

Originally published in 1995, Creation and Evolution in the Early American Scientific Affiliation is the tenth volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021.

This book brings together ecology, evolution, genetics, anatomy and geology to provide a new perspective on human evolution from the apes'' viewpoint.

This Element summarizes decades of research concerning the homology hypotheses structures of Echinodermata.

This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.

Relatively, a new discipline, Paleontology is the study of ancient Life forms that have inhabited our earth, and of the fossils that remain behind.

Light scattering from particles in the nanometric and micrometric size range is relevant in several research fields, such as aerosol science and nanotechnology.

Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology.

In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man.

all such systems are important, the Proterozoic column This volume concerns the geology of China, and it examinesthat concern by expositionsofthe stratigraphy, possibly is unique in its continuous sedimentary devel- the paleogeography,and the tectonics ofthat remarkable opment and in its reference section of global rank.

This book provides an overview of lakes in Mongolia from scientific, economic and scenic points of view, presenting lake area changes, their sedimentological and geochemical characteristics, valuable economic and geoheritage resources and paleoclimate change reconstruction.

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.

A study of the evolution of flowering plants, from their earliest phases in obscurity to their dominance in modern vegetation.

The Great Ice Age documents and explains the natural climatic and palaeoecologic changes that have occurred during the past 2.

Biological nomenclature is an essential tool for storing and retrieving biological information.

Animal evolution has always been at the core of Biology, but even today many fundamental questions remain open.

This book focuses on the problems of the Quaternary in South America and Antarctic Peninsula, with a strong emphasis in the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic approach.

Aeglidae focuses on these unique crustaceans who are endemic to South America.

Evolution is the single unifying principle of biology and core to everything in the life sciences.

This book is directed to those who are interested in petroleum geology, especially source rock from both academia and industrial societies.

Over the last few decades our understanding of what Australia was like during the Mesozoic Era has changed radically.

From Fossils to Astrobiology reviews developments in paleontology and geobiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field of Astrobiology, the study of life in the Universe.

Relatively, a new discipline, Paleontology is the study of ancient Life forms that have inhabited our earth, and of the fossils that remain behind.

This volume is the fourth in the series of the Proceedings of the College Park Colloquia on Chemical Evolution.

This book is the first of its kind on environmental change research devoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved.

A compelling analysis of the species that are most at risk of disappearing from our world - and what it means to us to lose them.

Originally published in 1899, The History of Creation was the first book of its kind to apply a doctrine to the whole range of organic morphology and make use of the effect Darwin had on biological sciences during the 19th century.

Demonstrates the use of the Paleobiology Database in undergraduate courses.

Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines.

This book serves as an up-to-date introduction, as well as overview to modern trace fossil research and covers nearly all of the essential aspects of modern ichnology.

An ontogenetic series of Deltasuchus motherali helps clarify its niche and resolve a contested part of the crocodyliform family tree.

Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures.